Courtesy of Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States,
1877-1919.

In 1892, 1,300 delegates from the Alliances, Knights of Labor, Nationalist
and Land and Labor parties, and a series of smaller groups met in Omaha,
Nebraska, and formed an independent party which they called the People’s party,
whose adherents became known as the Populists. (98)

Silver had become the favorite cause of Populists, silver Democrats, silver
Republicans, and the owners and miners in the silver-producing areas of the West
which stood to gain from the massive purchases of silver that would follow
unlimited coinage. (135)

In 1900 Mitchell’s ties to the National Civic Federation eased relations with
Hanna, who in turn approached J.P. Morgan, who headed the
Morgan-Hill-Vanderbilt-Pennsylvania group of railroads that controlled the
mining of anthracite coal. (181)

After having served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the
mid-1880s, Robert M. La Follette, a maverick Republican, won the Wisconsin
gubernatorial election of 1900. (190)

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